Psalm 77:18
New International Version
Your thunder was heard in the whirlwind, your lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked.

New Living Translation
Your thunder roared from the whirlwind; the lightning lit up the world! The earth trembled and shook.

English Standard Version
The crash of your thunder was in the whirlwind; your lightnings lighted up the world; the earth trembled and shook.

Berean Standard Bible
Your thunder resounded in the whirlwind; the lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked.

King James Bible
The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.

New King James Version
The voice of Your thunder was in the whirlwind; The lightnings lit up the world; The earth trembled and shook.

New American Standard Bible
The sound of Your thunder was in the whirlwind; The lightning lit up the world; The earth trembled and shook.

NASB 1995
The sound of Your thunder was in the whirlwind; The lightnings lit up the world; The earth trembled and shook.

NASB 1977
The sound of Thy thunder was in the whirlwind; The lightnings lit up the world; The earth trembled and shook.

Legacy Standard Bible
The sound of Your thunder was in the whirlwind; The lightnings lit up the world; The earth trembled and shook.

Amplified Bible
The voice of Your thunder was in the whirlwind; The lightnings illumined the world; The earth trembled and shook.

Christian Standard Bible
The sound of your thunder was in the whirlwind; lightning lit up the world. The earth shook and quaked.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The sound of Your thunder was in the whirlwind; lightning lit up the world. The earth shook and quaked.

American Standard Version
The voice of thy thunder was in the whirlwind; The lightnings lightened the world: The earth trembled and shook.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the voice of your thunders was in the sphere, your lightnings lit up the world, the Earth was disturbed and shook!

Brenton Septuagint Translation
The voice of thy thunder was abroad, and around thy lightnings appeared to the world; the earth trembled a quaked.

Contemporary English Version
Your thunder roared like chariot wheels. The world was made bright by lightning, and all the earth trembled.

Douay-Rheims Bible
the voice of thy thunder in a wheel. Thy lightnings enlightened the world: the earth shook and trembled.

English Revised Version
The voice of thy thunder was in the whirlwind; the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The sound of your thunder rumbled in the sky. Streaks of lightning lit up the world. The earth trembled and shook.

Good News Translation
The crash of your thunder rolled out, and flashes of lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and shook.

International Standard Version
Your thunderous sound was in a whirlwind; your lightning lights up the world; the earth becomes agitated and quakes.

JPS Tanakh 1917
The voice of Thy thunder was in the whirlwind; The lightnings lighted up the world; The earth trembled and shook.

Literal Standard Version
The voice of Your thunder [is] in the spheres, | Lightnings have lightened the world, | The earth has trembled, indeed, it shakes.

Majority Standard Bible
Your thunder resounded in the whirlwind; the lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked.

New American Bible
The thunder of your chariot wheels resounded; your lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked.

NET Bible
Your thunderous voice was heard in the wind; the lightning bolts lit up the world; the earth trembled and shook.

New Revised Standard Version
The crash of your thunder was in the whirlwind; your lightnings lit up the world; the earth trembled and shook.

New Heart English Bible
The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind. The lightnings lit up the world. The earth trembled and shook.

Webster's Bible Translation
The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.

World English Bible
The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind. The lightnings lit up the world. The earth trembled and shook.

Young's Literal Translation
The voice of Thy thunder is in the spheres, Lightnings have lightened the world, The earth hath trembled, yea, it shaketh.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
In The Day of Trouble I Sought the LORD
17The clouds poured down water; the skies resounded with thunder; Your arrows flashed back and forth. 18Your thunder resounded in the whirlwind; the lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked. 19Your path led through the sea, Your way through the mighty waters, but Your footprints were not to be found.…

Cross References
Judges 5:4
O LORD, when You went out from Seir, when You marched from the land of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens poured out rain, and the clouds poured down water.

Psalm 18:7
Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains trembled; they were shaken because He burned with anger.

Psalm 18:13
The LORD thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded--hailstones and coals of fire.

Psalm 68:8
the earth shook and the heavens poured down rain before God, the One on Sinai, before God, the God of Israel.

Psalm 97:4
His lightning illuminates the world; the earth sees and trembles.

Psalm 104:7
At Your rebuke the waters fled; at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away--


Treasury of Scripture

The voice of your thunder was in the heaven: the lightning lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.

voice

Psalm 29:3-9
The voice of the LORD is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the LORD is upon many waters…

Exodus 19:16
And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.

Job 37:1-5
At this also my heart trembleth, and is moved out of his place…

lightnings

Psalm 97:4
His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.

Habakkuk 3:4
And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.

Revelation 18:1
And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.

earth

Exodus 19:18
And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.

2 Samuel 22:8,14
Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth…

Matthew 27:51
And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;

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Psalm 77
1. The psalmist shows what fierce combat he had with distrust
10. The victory which he had by consideration of God's great and gracious works.














(18) In the heavens.--Literally, in the vault. The Hebrew, galgal, from g?lal, "to roll," has the same derivation as "vault" (volutum, from volvo). It is strange that this rendering, which so well suits the parallelism, should have been set aside by modern scholars in favour of "whirlwind" or "rolling chariot wheels." The LXX. and Vulg. have "wheel," but possibly with reference to the apparent revolution of the sky. The word, where it occurs in Isaiah 17:13, means something rolled by the whirlwind, not the whirlwind itself.

Verse 18. - The voice of thy thunder was in the heavens; rather, in the whirlwind (Kay, Cheyne, Revised Version). A storm of wind usually accompanies thunder and lightning. This the author, with poetical exaggeration, heightens into a "whirlwind" (comp. Psalm 83:13; Isaiah 17:13). The lightnings lightened the world. More hyperbole. Not only did they "go abroad" (ver. 17), darting hither and thither, but their intense brightness illuminated the whole earth. The earth trembled and shook. Through the reverberation of air, the earth seems to shake in a heavy thunderstorm.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Your thunder
רַעַמְךָ֨ ׀ (ra·‘am·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 7482: A peal of thunder

resounded
ק֤וֹל (qō·wl)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 6963: A voice, sound

in the whirlwind;
בַּגַּלְגַּ֗ל (bag·gal·gal)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1534: A wheel, a whirlwind, dust

the lightning
בְרָקִ֣ים (ḇə·rā·qîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 1300: Lightning, a gleam, a flashing sword

lit up
הֵאִ֣ירוּ (hê·’î·rū)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 215: To be or become light

the world;
תֵּבֵ֑ל (tê·ḇêl)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8398: The earth, the globe, its inhabitants, a particular land

the earth
הָאָֽרֶץ׃ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land

trembled
רָגְזָ֖ה (rā·ḡə·zāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 7264: To be agitated, quiver, quake, be excited, perturbed

and quaked.
וַתִּרְעַ֣שׁ (wat·tir·‘aš)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 7493: To undulate, through fear, to spring


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